ACU Type-ins project

ervin · 13:14, 23 December 09

June 1985 is complete.

Gryzor · 09:40, 25 December 09

Hurray

How many left?

ervin · 14:12, 28 December 09

Several.

July 1985 will begin very shortly.

Gryzor · 09:22, 04 January 10

I admire your courage, hope it lasts through 2010

ervin · 11:39, 04 January 10

Hehe, yes indeed.
It is a far bigger project than I had ever imagined.
But I intend to finish it.

Gryzor · 15:10, 05 January 10

Yay for you

Now if we could have the AA listings, too...!

ervin · 15:32, 05 January 10

Well, I've just finished redoing all the existing pages, and the stub pages for every issue, with a standard naming convention.
Took ages, but it'll make subsequent updates a lot easier and quicker.
Wish me luck!

Gryzor · 14:21, 08 January 10

Yes, I saw the flood of changes...

Thanks so much mate

ervin · 12:36, 15 January 10

July 1985 is complete.

Gryzor · 12:26, 18 January 10

Oh, it's Summer 85 already? Got my 464 around then, I think...

ervin · 12:31, 18 January 10

I must have got mine a few months earlier, as I clearly remember typing in the games from the earlier issues of ACU.
Those were the days... sigh...

Gryzor · 12:56, 18 January 10

"Sigh" is the key word here, indeed. We should have stayed kids... :`(

ervin · 13:04, 18 January 10

I hear ya dude... I hear ya.
God I miss those days so much...

Gryzor · 13:13, 18 January 10

Oh yes...

here's a little (off-topic) story about missing things: when I was serving in the army I got ill with mono. This is not serious if you take care of it, but it really, really saps your energy. I didn't have the luxury of resting, so I developed a few physical symptoms and then (out of the tiredness) some sort of depression.

So, when I was at my lowest, psychologically speaking, sometimes old memories would flash by. These included the smell of my CPC machines and the tapes, for instance, or -just for the tiniest second- the sensation of being happy, playing those old games back then...

Goes to say how much some things stay with you, even at a subliminal level...

ervin · 14:02, 18 January 10

Sounds funny, but I get that sort of thing quite a lot.

Little things (I often don't even know what) take me back for brief moments, and I remember specific times in front of my 464 back as a child. Yes, very powerful memories indeed.

Gryzor · 14:06, 18 January 10

Yeha... the funny thing is, I still get it sometimes, but it's not an actual memory but the feeling of it: an emulated moment, if you will, of how I felt back then... These things must be engraved somewhere in our brains, although why, I can't say.

ervin · 14:54, 27 January 10

Yes, an "emulated moment"!
A perfect term to describe the feeling!

Incidentally, August 1985 is now complete.

Gryzor · 15:32, 27 January 10

This is a great title for a song, or a painting, or something...

I saw you completing Aug.85. Superb

ervin · 15:17, 18 February 10

September 1985 is complete.

ervin · 14:59, 24 February 10

October 1985 is complete.

Gryzor · 13:33, 01 March 10

Catching up!

I did some typing-in this past weekend, thanks to your contributions, and me and my girlfriend had some good laughs...

ervin · 13:50, 01 March 10

Yeah, I'm finding it fascinating messing with the type-ins as well.
They're lots of fun.

Shows how easily we were satisifed back then though doesn't it?
All part of the learning experience really innit?

Gryzor · 13:59, 01 March 10

Well, the funny thing is, if you find yourself in the right frame of mind they can still be fun. I mean, some of them are very interesting in their interaction etc, and form a historical point of view, and that's why even my girlfriend had some fun with them... (she then went on to our arcade cabinet and fired up a Sega Megadrive emulator, but that's another story).

AMSDOS · 06:31, 13 December 16

Apologies for bumping up this old thread.
For some reason I thought the ACU type-ins was completed, since writing that last sentence I did some digging and found @Johnny Olsen saying that in the Splotch uploaded thread

but it seems it's only everything between 1984 & Jan 1989 which has been completed along with May 1992, everything after that is drawing a blank, though 1989 I think was when ACU started the 10 Liners and I know @Nich had a whole bunch of Disk Images of those (trying to convert them to work on a 464 if possible) which CPC-Power has used along with the odd Main Game Listing.

Anyway in 1991, ACU ran a 7 part BASIC tutorial series. Despite the presentation and typos it may have suffered from in the hands of ACU, this one offered some extra challenges by Glynne Davies throwing in some extra problems to add to the programs, it didn't happen on every occasion, though I guess you could say when other similar programs were included from previous parts, it was a way to further development. I've almost completed all the programs from the series and have done an disc image which will have 54 programs on it, and thought it would be a good guide to have on CPC-RULEZ.

Nich · 21:27, 13 December 16

Quote from: AMSDOS on 06:31, 13 December 16
...though 1989 I think was when ACU started the 10 Liners and I know @Nich had a whole bunch of Disk Images of those (trying to convert them to work on a 464 if possible) which CPC-Power has used along with the odd Main Game Listing.

Those disc images I compiled are still available on NVG. Many of them have been altered slightly, so they aren't exactly the same as the published listings.

I uploaded a lot of 10-Liners to CPC-POWER a couple of years ago, and they have been checked against the published listings and any corrections have been documented. If you're going to compile disc images of ACU Type-Ins for CPCWiki then please use the versions on CPC-POWER as a source.

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